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Barbara MacAdam

Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art (to mid-twentieth century)

At Dartmouth since 1983, Barbara J. “Bonnie” MacAdam has strengthened the museum’s holdings of American art extensively, purchasing, for example, significant works by John James Audubon, Joseph Blackburn, Mary Cassatt, Maria Oakey Dewing, Harriet Hosmer, Eastman Johnson, Rockwell Kent, Man Ray, Willard Metcalf, James Peale, Lilly Martin Spencer, and Abbott Thayer. In addition to curating and coordinating dozens of exhibitions and installations, her major publications include Winter’s Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire, 1909–1920 (1999); Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawing and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art (2005); and American Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art (2007). Bonnie holds an M.A. in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program of the State University of New York, and a B.A. in American studies from the University of Michigan.

The Hood Museum of Art houses one of the oldest and largest college collections in the country, with more than 65,000 objects from the Americas, Europe, Africa, Papua New Guinea, Australia, and many more regions of the world.